Marvel Studios has resurrected more careers than a nostalgic casting agent with a time machine. From forgotten villains to former sidekicks, the franchise has treated its archives like a buffet, everyone gets a second helping eventually. However, amid all these glorious revivals and multiverse mayhem, one leather-clad night stalker remained conspicuously absent. While superheroes with talking raccoons and sentient capes got screen time, this particular vampire slayer was left sharpening stakes in the shadows. That is, until now.

After years of silence, fans of the long-lost half-human hero have finally received the good news they were thirsting for.

Marvel Studios is finally sharpening its fangs for a proper Blade revival, but the road to reinvention has been less vampire-hunter, more script-hunter. While talking to TheWrap and few other reporters, Kevin Feige revealed that the project has gone through four script versions, each one bitten by the studio’s recent identity crisis. “We did not want to simply just put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires,” Feige said. For once, Marvel seems determined not to wing it with wooden stakes.

The delay, however, is not laziness, it is penance. Feige admitted the studio became a victim of its own streaming-era sprawl, stating, “We have had well over 100 hours of stories in half the time.” Blade, once a cornerstone of the Marvel brand, now demands reverence, not rushed action, unlike what fans wanted because of Ryan Coogler. With Eric Pearson currently on script duty, fans can rest assured Marvel is refusing to deliver anything less than “insanely great”, and this time, they mean it.

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With all the chaos and back-and-forth, it is tough to tell what is actually locked in for Marvel’s upcoming Blade reboot.

Despite delays and creative turnover, Marvel Studios has not abandoned its plans for the return of its iconic Daywalker. Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali remains attached to star in the lead role, solidifying the studio’s long-standing commitment to the character. As confirmed in a press roundtable with TheWrap, the project is still in development and remains a firm part of Marvel Studios’ long-term strategy. The leather is not back yet, but the fangs have not been pulled either.

Writer Eric Pearson, known for his work on Fantastic Four and Black Widow, is currently shaping the latest version of the screenplay. While earlier drafts explored different time periods, the studio has chosen to keep the story rooted in the present day, this time drawing creative inspiration from the cult-classic 1998 Blade film. The goal now appears to be merging the grit and swagger of the original with Marvel’s modern polish.

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